The22nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 8 to 23 May 1969. Italian filmmakerLuchino Visconti served as jury president for the main competition.
TheGrand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the festival's main prize, was awarded toIf.... byLindsay Anderson.[2]
At this edition a new non-competitive section calledDirectors' Fortnight was created, in response to the cancellation of the 1968 festival.[3]
The festival opened withSweet Charity byBob Fosse.[4]
Short Films Competition
[edit]- Charles Duvanel, Swiss
- Mihnea Gheorghiu, Romanian
- Claude Soulé, French CST official
The following feature films competed for theGrand Prix du Festival International du Film:[6]
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[6]
Short Films Competition
[edit]The following short films competed for theGrand Prix International du Festival:[6]
- Le Ballet des Jacungos by Jean Manzon
- Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu
- Goldframe byRaoul Servais
- L'Homme aux chats by Henri Glaeser
- Moc osudu byJiří Brdečka
- Niebieska kula by Mirosław Kijowicz
- La Pince à ongles byJean-Claude Carrière
- Red Arrows by John Edwards
- Short Seven by Jonne Severijn
- Su sambene non est aba by Luigi Gonzo &Manfredo Manfredi
- Toccata by Herman van der Horst
- El Triunfo de la muerte by José María Gutiérrez
- Das Verräterische Herz by Paul Anczykowski
- World of Man by Albert Fischer & Michael Collyer
International Critics' Week
[edit]The following feature films were screened for the 8thInternational Critics' Week (8e Semaine de la Critique):[7]
Directors' Fortnight
[edit]The following films were screened for the 1969Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[8]
- Short films
- 5/7/35 by Jean Mazeas (France)
- Adrien s’éloigne by Claude Guillemot (France)
- Arrabal byJacques Poitrenaud (France)
- Athènes, ville sourire by Lambros Liaropoulos (Greece)
- Black Movie by Adrian (filmmaker) (France)
- Chinese Chekers byStephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
- Einer Mädchenhaut by Klaus Schönherr (France)
- Erin Ereinté by Jean-Paul Aubert (France)
- Flash-Parc by Frank Cassenti (France)
- Fuses by Carolee Schneemann (United States)
- Galaxie byGregory Markopoulos (France)
- Gedanken beim Befühlen by Klaus Schönherr (France)
- Hemingway by Fausto Canel (Cuba)
- Jeanne et la moto by Diourka Medveczky (France)
- Journal de séjour a Marseille by C. Lindenmeyer, Gérard Levy-Clerc (France)
- La page dévoilée by Jim Hodgetts et Mike Marshall (France)
- La poursuite impitoyable by J.J. Schakmundes, R. Guillon (France)
- Le mariage de Clovis byDaniel Duval (France)
- Le Sursitaire by Serge Huet (France)
- Les Stabiles byChristian Lara (France)
- Libi byOtto Muehl (France)
- Marie et le Curé by Diourka Medveczky (France)
- Miss Paris et le Majordome by Georges Dumoulin (France)
- Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin byPascal Aubier (France)
- N.O.T.H.I.N.G. byPaul Sharits (France)
- Naissant byStephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
- On the Every Day of the Eyes of Death byRobert Beavers (France)
- Paris des Négritudes by Jean Schmidt (France)
- Permanence by Busioc Ionesco (Romania)
- Que s’est-il passé en Mai? by Jean-Pierre Savignac (France)
- Rohfilm by G. Hein (France)
- S. Macht am Sonntag-Nachmittag keinen Film byDieter Meier (France)
- Scenes from Under Childhood byStan Brakhage (France)
- Souvenir de la nuit du 4 by Patrice Gauthier, Henry Lange (France)
- Speak by John Latham (United Kingdom)
- The Mysteries byGregory Markopoulos (France)
- Twice a Man byGregory Markopoulos (France)
- Untebrochene Flugverbindungen byDieter Meier (France)
- Versucht mit Synth. Ton byKurt Kren (France)
- Winged Dialogue byRobert Beavers (France)
Luchino Visconti, Jury PresidentShort Films Competition
[edit]Commission Supérieure Technique
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